The human capacity to forget is not merely a failure of memory but a fundamental adaptive mechanism. Memory suppression and intentional forgetting involve the active inhibition of unwanted or ...

I meant to write this post last week, but I kept forgetting. This is no joke. I remembered and then forgot, twice, to write and publish this piece. Has this sort of thing happened to you in the past ...

In a discovery that could reshape how we think about memory, researchers at Flinders University have found that forgetting is not just a glitch in the brain but is actually a finely-tuned process, and ...

On Memory and Recollection -- Memory and Imagination -- The Exercise of Memory: Uses and Abuses -- Personal Memory, Collective Memory -- History, Epistemology -- History: Remedy or Poison? -- The ...

The things we usually call memories are part of the episodic memory system, which stores memories of episodes of your life, like having a conversation with a colleague or going to the grocery store, ...

For decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have propagated a dismal picture of the human mind. We are told that far from being rational, most of what we think and do is propelled by irrational ...

Introduction: Histories of forgetting -- Part 1. Building the social imaginary, 1885-1997. Booster myths, urban erasure ; L.A. noir and forgetting ; Building Blade ...